{"query": "Joy to the World", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_eef7150c8404", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_009: This law holds in foul and accursed joy; this in permitted and lawful joy; th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This law holds in foul and accursed joy; this in permitted and lawful joy; this in the very purest perfection of friendship; this, in him who was dead, and lived again; had been lost and was found. Ev"}, {"id": "card_n_44c4e5da6ebd", "title": "Joy to the World", "shelf": "hymns", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Joy to the world! The Lord is come;\nLet earth receive her King!\nLet every heart prepare Him room,\nAnd heaven and nature sing.\n\nJoy to the earth! The Savior reigns!\nLet men their songs employ;\nWhile fi"}, {"id": "card_n_abb11a36aa46", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xxv: The true joy of a man, is to do that which properly belongs unto a man.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The true joy of a man, is to do that which properly belongs unto a man. That which is most proper unto a man, is, first, to be kindly affected towards them that are of the same kind and nature as he i"}, {"id": "card_n_4f123729c557", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_010: Up, Lord, and do; stir us up, and recall us; kindle and draw us; inflame, gro...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Up, Lord, and do; stir us up, and recall us; kindle and draw us; inflame, grow sweet unto us, let us now love, let us run. Do not many, out of a deeper hell of blindness than Victorinus, return to The"}, {"id": "card_n_47395057728c", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_34: Behold, God is mine, and all things are mine!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, God is mine, and all things are mine! What will I more, and what more happy thing can I desire? O delightsome and sweet world! that is, to him that loveth the Word, not the world, neither the "}, {"id": "card_n_4b1df97690e6", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §201: FAITH.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "FAITH. A work of grace in the soul discovereth itself, either to him that hath it, or to standers by. To him that hath it thus: It gives him conviction of sin, especially of the defilement of his natu"}, {"id": "card_n_bb7c3c0b8122", "title": "Psalm 98 — Psalm 98", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<A Psalm.>> Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him. Yahweh has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his "}, {"id": "card_n_708e78e20648", "title": "Psalm 96 — Psalm 96", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth. Sing to Yahweh! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation from day to day! Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the"}, {"id": "card_n_24346c864151", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_059: But, O Lord, Thou alone Lord without pride, because Thou art the only true Lo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But, O Lord, Thou alone Lord without pride, because Thou art the only true Lord, who hast no lord; hath this third kind of temptation also ceased from me, or can it cease through this whole life? To w"}, {"id": "card_n_d3713f9f17e9", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_02_10: Why seekest thou rest when thou art born to labour?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Why seekest thou rest when thou art born to labour? Prepare thyself for patience more than for comforts, and for bearing the cross more than for joy. For who among the men of this world would not glad"}, {"id": "card_n_9cdbed99b3bd", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_02_01: The kingdom of God is within you,(1) saith the Lord.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The kingdom of God is within you,(1) saith the Lord. Turn thee with all thine heart to the Lord and forsake this miserable world, and thou shalt find rest unto thy soul. Learn to despise outward thing"}, {"id": "card_n_29926e451adb", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_02_06: The testimony of a good conscience is the glory of a good man.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The testimony of a good conscience is the glory of a good man. Have a good conscience and thou shalt ever have joy. A good conscience is able to bear exceeding much, and is exceeding joyful in the mid"}, {"id": "card_n_b95a244638e9", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xxxvi: Whatsoever doth happen in the world, is, in the course of nature, as usual an...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whatsoever doth happen in the world, is, in the course of nature, as usual and ordinary as a rose in the spring, and fruit in summer. Of the same nature is sickness and death; slander, and lying in wa"}, {"id": "card_n_0dfc1b8fc688", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_010: Away with those then from my soul who say to her, \"It makes a difference when...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Away with those then from my soul who say to her, \"It makes a difference whence a man's joy is. That beggar-man joyed in drunkenness; Thou desiredst to joy in glory.\" What glory, Lord? That which is n"}, {"id": "card_n_0500da92d451", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_033: It is not certain then that all wish to be happy, inasmuch as they who wish n...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "It is not certain then that all wish to be happy, inasmuch as they who wish not to joy in Thee, which is the only happy life, do not truly desire the happy life. Or do all men desire this, but because"}, {"id": "card_n_6ab7fc5b406e", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_02_08: When Jesus is present all is well and nothing seemeth hard, but when Jesus is...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When Jesus is present all is well and nothing seemeth hard, but when Jesus is not present everything is hard. When Jesus speaketh not within, our comfort is nothing worth, but if Jesus speaketh but a "}, {"id": "card_n_4a1031501116", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_032: Far be it, Lord, far be it from the heart of Thy servant who here confesseth ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Far be it, Lord, far be it from the heart of Thy servant who here confesseth unto Thee, far be it, that, be the joy what it may, I should therefore think myself happy. For there is a joy which is not "}, {"id": "card_n_8a2f565f412d", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_04_11: The Voice of the Disciple O most sweet Lord Jesus, how great is the blessedne...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Voice of the Disciple O most sweet Lord Jesus, how great is the blessedness of the devout soul that feedeth with Thee in Thy banquet, where there is set before it no other food than Thyself its on"}, {"id": "card_n_cf6928dba910", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_003: To Simplicianus then I went, the father of Ambrose (a Bishop now) in receivin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "To Simplicianus then I went, the father of Ambrose (a Bishop now) in receiving Thy grace, and whom Ambrose truly loved as a father. To him I related the mazes of my wanderings. But when I mentioned th"}, {"id": "card_n_a53a658e1bf3", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §396: Now while they were thus drawing towards the gate, behold a company of the heavenly hos...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Now while they were thus drawing towards the gate, behold a company of the heavenly host came out to meet them; to whom it was said, by the other two Shining Ones, These are the men that have loved ou"}]}